Vocabulary
What is the squo?
Status Quo
What are the four parts of a disad?
Uniqueness, link, internal link, impact
What are your harms?
The bad thing your plan fixes
What is inherency?
Explains why certain bad things or harms exist in the status quo
What is Kate's favorite food? (several answers accepted)
Bagels, waffles, dumplings, any form of dim sum, almost all pastas, chocolate chip cookies, etc.
What's LARP?
Live Action Role Play or when debaters act as policy makers in their debate rounds?
Name 3 extinction level impacts/impacts that can get you to extinction.
Nuclear War, Climate, Economic Collapse, etc.
What framework would work best with a structural harm?
Structural violence
Give an example of what attitudinal inherency could be? Doesn't need to be debate
Fear causes a law to be created that drives a wedge between nations, Right now the news is not objective enough because news channels are more focused on partisanship, etc.
Who is one Kate's favorite musical artists?
Gracie Abrams, Taylor Swift, Noah Kahan, Jermey Zucker, Chelsea Cutler, Olivia Rodrigo, Lorde, Holly Humberstone, Alix Page
Whats progressive LD/Circuit LD?
The type of LD that happens on the national circuit and includes fancier arguments.
Uniqueness is similar to what part of a plan aff?
Inherency!
What is a structural harm?
Embedded in society
Ex. Systemic racism will get worse without the plan
Give an example of a gap inherency
We need universal healthcare cause healthcare in the US right now isnt enough, Right now there is not enough objectivity because policies that journalists follow in their wokplaces dont force them to be objective, etc
Name any tv show that is in Kate's top 5 tv shows or one that she really likes.
Acceptable answers: Brooklyn 99, Gilmore Girls, Anne with an E, The Good Place, I have seen TVD way too many times to pretend its not very comforting, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Dash and Lily, Jane The Virgin.
What language does the word fiat come from?
Latin
What is a thumper?
Give three examples of a non structural harm?
Global warming, nuclear war, arms race, mass genocide, ethnic cleansing, stock market collapse, pandemic,
What is the connection between inherency and your harms called?
Your internal link!
What is Kate's school email?
What does fiat mean and what is it's purpose in debate?
"let it be done" and it assumes that the aff will happen as it says it will.
Craft a disad story you could use on this topic.
This could be almost anything I'll take whatever.
Name two logical places your harms could go in the order of stock issues in a plan.
You could have your plan text, then your inherency, then your harms, then your solvency, then your significance or you could have your harms, then your inherency, then your plan text, then your solvency, then your significance.
Right now journalism is advocative because people are super partisan.
Name one character from a tv or movie that Kate finds relatable.
Lara Jean Covey from the To All The Boys Series (she's an indecisive baker that reads romance novels and makes the occasional questionable decision), Cass from The Society (girlboss), Jane from Jane the Virgin (Bossy, very controlling/methodical, hardworking, we both really like wrap dresses, I also would have married Micheal then gotten with Raf), Rory Gilmore from Gilmore Girls (I too am messy and am in love with Jess Mariano) (I don't really think we're similar tho), Judy Hopps from Zootopia (I also get dissappointed easily), Lily from Dash and Lily (hopeless romantic)
Now that I've written this I've realized its all kinda bs and i'll probably take the answer I like the most.